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    I'm sick and tired of people talking about the great things Judd Apatow is doing for/with women. Let's take this episode of "Girls." These are horrible, selfish, mentally unstable young women, and in each case it took a more level-headed male to (try to) slap some sense into them. Remind me how this does anything to

    So true. You can't play both sides… stir our sympathy one moment, then the next moment try to make us laugh (?) at an awful human being who deserves no sympathy at all, ever. If you're going with path A, drama, it's fine to sprinkle in some humor, but this is just over-the-top nonsense.

    I don't get it either. If we're supposed to view them as horrible people (which we have to - because they're horrible), then why at certain times does the show try to tug at our emotions and make us feel empathy for them? I can't feel a lick of empathy.

    And let's face it, the exact same dynamics were happening with Alex's "cool younger girlfriend." Really shallow characters in both cases.

    I'm also not a fan of the Brett/Natalie relationship. As you said, it brings out a creepy side of Brett. But I also find Natalie's behavior really forced, I guess. It's almost like a cartoon character of a 25-year-old "cool girlfriend." Like "I'm so fun and easygoing and chill, I act like one of the guys, but you

    I can't be the only one who found this episode really stupid. Michelle's impromptu lie about the "arts curriculum" was just ludicrous and then … what's the motivation for so many random people to help out with stealing sand from a public beach? Oh yeah, and Brett's new GF just coincidentally happens to be a part of